population of Prague is only 1.3 million but Prague is the fifth most visited European city after London, Paris, Istanbul and Rome with over 8 million tourists each year.
Prague has a rich architectural variety with minimal damage from the World Wars
after WW1 Prague became the capital of the newly formed Czechoslovakia after the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
it had a large population of German Jews most of whom were deported and killed by the Nazis
At the end of WWII, the Russians took control of the city after a bloody Czech uprising against the Germans, and expelled most of the 50,000 Germans living there
Prague became the capital city of the Czech Republic when it formed in 1993 and from 1995 onwards high rise buildings began to be built